Senator PEARCE
- The Treasurer has supplied the following answers to the honorable senator's questions: -

1.
No.

2.
No payments of surplus revenue have at any time been made to the States under section 6 of the SurplusRevenue Act (No.8) of 1910, as in each year the full amount of Commonwealth revenue has been appropriated by the Commonwealth Parliament, and there has been no surplus revenue in the hands of the Treasurer at the close of any year.